Project: The Right Direction Knife Crime DVD
Aim: To give young people something to do and to educate them on the dangers of knife crime
Funding: £1,000 from Positive Activities for Young People
The Right Direction is Norfolk's rebranded Positive Activities for Young People programme, which aims to give young people things to do to keep them away from crime. In summer 2007, young people in years seven to 10 from the Blyth-Jex School in Norwich created a DVD warning young people about the dangers of knife crime.
The young people wrote, produced, filmed, acted in and edited a short film showing the effects of carrying a weapon. The story focuses on a group of young people drinking and smoking in a park who then discover that one of them is carrying a knife. After expressing concern they meet an older man who asks for a cigarette. The young person carrying the knife is feeling the effects of the alcohol and the story ends with the man being stabbed.
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